Hey gang! This is Deke McClelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques!…This week I'm going to show you how to create a magically updating…pattern inside Illustrator.…I know you're thinking "What?…Does Illustrator seriously now offer magic?" and the answer is yes.…And were going to take this ornament and we're going to shrink it down, modify…its colors a little bit, and duplicate it over and over again, as you can see…here, but there's only one original in the upper-left corner.…We make any modifications to that original object right there and Illustrator,…just bang, just like that, like magic.…

I tell you, updates the pattern on the fly.…Here, let me show you exactly how it works.…We're going to start things off with this basic flower ornament.…Now everything about this flower lives on the flowers layer.…If you twirl open the flowers layer here inside the Layers panel, you'll see…that we have a couple of groups that represent the petals, and we've got an…object called path, which is the central circle, and the compound path, which is…

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3/6/2018

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1/13/2011

This course is a collection of short Photoshop and Illustrator projects and creative effects that can be completed in ten minutes or less. The series is taught by computer graphics guru Deke McClelland, and presented in his signature step-by-step style. The intent is to reveal how various Photoshop and Illustrator features can be combined and leveraged in real-world examples so that they can be applied to creative projects right away.

Skill Level Intermediate

118h 18m

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